{"id":146238,"date":"2026-02-15T22:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146238"},"modified":"2026-02-15T22:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:00:21","slug":"in-munich-the-us-urges-collective-strength-among-allies-to-deter-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146238","title":{"rendered":"In Munich, the US urges \u2018collective strength\u2019 among allies to deter China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese military activities \u2013 and the need to respond to them \u2013 were framed as a major driver of cooperation between US allies in the Indo-Pacific and Europe during this year\u2019s Munich Security Conference (MSC).<br \/>\nIt comes as Washington pushes its allies to spend more on their own defence and in the collective defence of the \u201cfirst island chain\u201d to deter potential war with China.<br \/>\nSpeaking at the conference on Saturday, Elbridge Colby, US undersecretary of defence for policy, said that while&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3343636\/munich-us-urges-collective-strength-among-allies-deter-china?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese military activities \u2013 and the need to respond to them \u2013 were framed as a major driver of cooperation between US allies in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146238"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}